Podcast Episode 20: Five Key Metallurgy Concepts

Podcast Episode 20: Five Key Metallurgy Concepts

In this episode of the Metals Conversations podcast I discuss five key metallurgy concepts that must be understood to apply metallurgy to

  • Produce stock metals such as rod, bar, and sheet
  • Design and fabricate low-cost, reliable components
  • Figure out the root cause of component failures and production quality problems.

 

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Michael Pfeifer, Ph.D., P.E., is President of Industrial Metallurgists and a metallurgical engineering consultant with more than 30 years of experience in product design, manufacturing, failure analysis, and metallurgy training. He helps clients worldwide solve design and manufacturing problems and is the author of Materials Enabled Designs.

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